We confess, when we saw the teaser of Saala Khadoos (Irudhi Suttru in Tamil), we weren't particularly enthused. It felt like the same story – disgraced sportsman turns coach to underdog protégé. We've seen these before, and that the director is a debutante raised no hopes of it being anything out of the ordinary. But it turns out we were wrong. And we didn't know being wrong could feel so good.

On some level, we were right. It is in fact a clichéd and completely predictable sports story that you've seen a bunch of times already. Coach Adi Tomar (Madhavan) is a grumpy has-be....

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